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• The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

  Erich Fromm

  Hurt, Emotional, Differences

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Grief, Compassion

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.562, Harvard University Press

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• Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Mean, Opportunity, Greatness

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• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  George Washington

  Comfort, Events, Consciousness

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.

  Red Auerbach

  Sports, Player, Organization

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• There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Issues

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

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• If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty  to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Loyalty, Passion, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.173, Penguin

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• When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

  Jane Addams

  Character, May, Energy

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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• It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.

  Woody Allen

  Hate, Figures, Ifs

  "Woody Allen: His Films and Career". Book by Douglas Brode, 1985.

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• A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Borders, Would Be

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.5425, e-artnow

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• Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

  Mark Hopkins

  Character, Men, Might

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Years

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

  John Travolta

  Knowing, Issues, Enlightenment

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• [There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

  Polybius

  Men, Good Man, Honor

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• Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Kings, Apology, Men

  "Gonzales: 'I feel angry'". Interview with John King, johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and the integrity of the country are the topmost priorities. All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Book, Responsibility

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Ideas, Intuition, Important

  "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Believe, Self

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• To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Dream, Sex, Past

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

  Bertie Ahern

  Needs, Guarantees, Financial

  "Turning the Tables on McDowell". www.irishtimes.com. September 28, 2006.

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• Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Philosophical, People, Soul

  "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 17), 1999.

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• These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Education, Character, Land

  Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.

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• By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

  Seth Lloyd

  Sex, Fun, Engineering

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• To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

  Starhawk

  Beer, Unjust Society, Justice

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.

  Starhawk

  Mean, Self, Expression

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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